Applied Knowledge Exchange

Tourism Minister Jim Mather has championed the resilience of Scotland’s tourism industry. He commended the sector’s robust response to challenges brought by the continued tough economic climate and recent disruptions to air travel. Glasgow Caledonian University’s tourism experts in the Moffat Centre produces the Visitor Attraction Monitor, an annual report on the performance of Scotland’s visitor attractions, with [...]

Glasgow Caledonian University’s Applied Knowledge Exchange was at the S2S Social Enterprise Fair this week. We enjoyed chatting with Social Enterprises, other universities and inviduals about the growing social enterprise sector. Our PgC Social Enterprise course was a hot topic of the day! Find out more from wwww.gcu.ac.uk/business or give us a ring on 0141 [...]

Glasgow Caledonian University spin-off company, Biopta, was used as a backdrop for an announcement by Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, that more than £4.7 million of European funding is being invested in initiatives to support small and medium enterprises. Biopta, which was set-up by Dr. David Bunton and Professor Chris Hillier in 2002, now employs [...]

IMechE/ICE/IET/IChemE  BLOODHOUND THE 1000 MPH CHALLENGE Glasgow Caledonian University and Scottish Power are co-sponsoring an exciting event featuring John Piper, Chief Engineer on the JCB land speed record car, talking about Britain’s latest attempt at the world land speed record. The lecture will concentrate on the Bloodhound car, but will also talk about how the challenger cars [...]